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Tesla's Chief Vehicle Engineer Returns To Apple (theverge.com)
Doug Field, the former VP of Mac hardware who left Apple to become Tesla's chief vehicle engineer, has returned to Cupertino. Field is reportedly working on the company's secretive "Project Titan" self-driving car program. The Verge reports: Field ran Tesla's vehicle production and engineering, but CEO Elon Musk took over responsibility for production this year after the company failed to meet its initial first-quarter goal for the Model 3. Field then took a leave of absence in May, and subsequently left the company altogether in June. Project Titan has reportedly been scaled back considerably from its initial scope, with hundreds of people leaving the division as Apple is said to focus on seeking carmaker partners for its self-driving software. [Daring Fireball's John Gruber] speculates that Field's return to Titan suggests Apple could still have an interest in producing vehicles itself, while cautioning that employees do move between the two companies regularly.
Can you imagine an APPLE CAR? It would be like the Popemobile but with Jobs's casket in the back instead of the Pope. lolololol.
Hemingway or Metallica versions.
So wouldnâ(TM)t put it past Apple to somehow fund Tesla going private initiative. Tesla would need a sugar daddy like Apple to go private.
Where’s the money, musk? Where's the fucking money, shithead?
At least at the top.
I've heard that among the rank and file, if you leave, Apple won't ever hire you back.
Hate to be sucking on air when Tesla stock NOSEDIVESSSZZZ! Sell while you can!
wonder if he went to tesla just to gather info then report back to apple.
Swift is shit, and still isn't stable after 5 fucking years. Kotlin doesn't randomly break shit every year with a new pointless "update". That stupid douche should have stuck to playing with his shitty open sources compilers, and left language design to people who have a fucking clue.
Maybe now that Doug is back at Apple, he should work on "Secret Project Working Keyboard".
Shit, like, just works, dude. So awesome.
"tech", just a junk stock scammer.
Remember what his shills sang last week?
"The shorts will pay".
Remember what Trump said about that "wall"?
"Mexico's gonna pay".
Yep, it is that bad.
I was beginning to miss the five musk-sucking threads by BeauHD and Rei a week. CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT TESLA DISCUSSIONS.
Rei, Beau, STRENGTHEN MY FAITH!
Tell me all that stock I bought isn't going to be just worthless paper after Musk goes to jail.
Please!
Teh shorts are gonna BURN.
Burn, burn, burn.
So, the big news today is that Tesla lost one employee! One who worked as an executive for four years, and managed the people who really designed the car. For someone like that to hold a job for only four years isn't unusual.
This is met with a lot of totally unsubstantiated "Tesla will crash", "It's a really bad car", "Musk is going to jail". The shorts are still out there, or just trolls.
As far as I can tell, lots of people want their cars, their home solar products, their industrial battery products, etc.
I agree that Musk was probably just teasing the shorts. But Musk can say he's considering any thing he wants. And although it would be the largest stock buy-out ever, on paper, consider that the actual buying out is only for the people who decide to sell - while many would hang on - and he probably is able to line up the financing to handle a reasonable estimate of how many investors would sell out.
Lots of companies go private, public again, and private again. It's more common these days, with more private money in the market. And right now, being public is a distraction for Tesla. Too much energy spent fighting FUD.
Bruce Perens.
stop lying? While it may sound grand on /. it rarely works in real life.
It is not just one employee, Bruce. Quite a few people in senior engineering positions left Tesla in the past half year. These are people who actually lead the lemmings, including Grimes's boyfriend, towards the light. And it speaks volumes that the replacements we know of are from the lemmings group.
Also, there is no indication Tesla is "going private". No "investor" has stepped forward to confirm Musk's ravings, the board doesn't know who'll pay the bill, there are no banks and lawyers working on a deal, the Musk promise to have a buyout without shafting current holders is a business and legal impossibility. It was a stupid attempt to manipulate the stock price by a desperate failure of a manager.
How desperate a failure? Taking people's money and not delivering their cars level desperate:
https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/warning-dont-pay-your-tesla-electronic-funds-transfer-delivery
Did he forget something?
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
How come he does not have non competitive clause in his contract?
How come some programmer grunt have such clause in his contract and this high level specialist does not?
Double standard world...
This is met with a lot of totally unsubstantiated "Tesla will crash", "It's a really bad car", "Musk is going to jail". The shorts are still out there, or just trolls.
Never ever seen anything like that. It's all in your head.
At 62, you may be suffering from early Alzheimer's. I would get screened.
/. sure has Elon's cock jammed down their collective throat while his fingers are busily pussy grabbing all they can. SAD.
The PEDO.
That's great you made out.
Musk insisted that he wouldn't need another cash infusion, but low and behold, he got that 2 billion from the Saudis. The "shorts" knew it and said so, but they were dismissed as "trolls" and "stock manipulators" - which is laughable considering the way the stock has been moving.
See, here's a house analogy of where Tesla was on June 30, 2018:
Imagine having $200 in the bank, a $1500 paycheck coming in at the end of the month and a $2,000 mortgage due now.
What do'ya do?
It doesn't matter that you have $100,000 in equity. You got to pay the bank.
Go to you favorite investing site and learn about the "current ratio" and other solvency tests. Because after you flamed me days ago, it's obvious you don't understand those things. And Musk is an unreliable source. (Where are those 500,000 cars he was gonna make this year?)
Over the last 40 years, I have seen this scenario play out time and time again. Every couple of decades there's a high profile entrepreneur that gets everybody's imagination going and hopes up and they never meet expectations. Steve Jobs stumbled pretty damn hard a couple of times.
Musk is rapidly losing credibility among knowledgeable investors. This last stunt raised a lot of eyebrows - including the SEC's.
And if he loses the confidence of the big players( Fidelity and the other funds that are in Tesla), you will see the stock price crash.
And as far as the buyout is concerned, no one has heard anything. If Musk was telling the truth, my best guess is the Chinese. It's gonna have to be a sovereign wealth fund of some sort to pony up the tens of billions needed.
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Hurry, line up for the new Icar. You know you're having a fit to own one already. We'll pack it with technology that's a least 3 years old and say it's the first. We'll price it way beyond were it should be and forget about working on it! We have the hood and the other parts welded shut so you can't get to them. You have to have one of our big fucking car disassemblers using our specially designed bolts to separate that sucker. Only we can do it.
Now who will be the first with their $100,000 deposit.